Work-around for the Loadgame Bug: Hibernate

[ShellShock]

This is purely anecdotal evidence: I've been using hibernate on my latest, short campaign as the Scipii, and I have had about 3 messages so far about defeat being imminent - twice because Gaul was about to win, and once because of Egypt winning. In other short campaigns (I've played Brutii and Egypt) I've never had any such messages. This suggests to me that using hibernation to avoid reloads has resulted in a more expansive and aggressive AI.

[Browning]

Sadly, I made no progress in testing the idea of using the hibernation files as savegame files.

I have one more idea: use Acronis Partition Wizard (or a similar tool) to change the filesystem of your system partition to FAT32. Then you can play R:TW, hibernate, boot linux, copy the hiberfile to the location of your choice, restart, use Partition Wizard to change the filesystem back to NTFS, use computer for sth different.

When you are about to play R:TW again, change the filesystem to FAT32, start windows, hibernate, boot linux, copy the saved hiberfile of your choice back to c: (overwritting your "stub" hiberfile), restart your computer, play R:TW.

Sadly, I am unable to test this, since my trial version of Acronis Partition Wizard expired.

[ShellShock]

One other little tip: on Windows XP, in the "Turn off computer" dialog, when you see the three buttons, "Standby", "Turn off", and "Restart", just hitting the H key on your keyboard will invoke hibernation (assuming it is enabled in Control Panel, Power Options). No need to use SHIFT+H.